Reader asks’"a degree in "Education Leadership." What exactly is that???"

A much noted definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So why is the BOE so intent on hiring people who replicate the very people we already have in place to solve a problem they have been unable to solve? Notice that Jessica Anspach has her degree in “Education Leadership.” What exactly is that???

New Director of Curriculum and Instruction Reports to Work Dr. Jessica Anspach comes to the district from the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools, where she was the Language Arts and Basic Skills Instructional Program Supervisor. Dr. Anspach has a Doctorate in Education Leadership from Seton Hall University.

Now the bloggers question the meaning of some graduate degrees? You are in way over your head.

It may seem easy for people with no background to pretend to understand how the educational system works. Just because you graduated from high school does not mean that you understand the workings of the educational system – in any state in the union.

I saw a van stopped by the hospital entrance on Van Dien today. They unloaded a (very nice looking)coffin. Shouldn’t they be doing that at a delivery entrance? I thought that the deceased were brought to the funeral home, and then placed in a coffin.

“Just because you graduated from high school does not mean that you understand the workings of the educational system…”

What is to understand, it is failing miserably. Silly mandates, low standards, life time job security for its employees, failing urban schools, mediocre suburban schools, bloated bureaucracies, inflated and run away budgets, poor student achievement scores, politicization of curriculum, lack of accountability to parents, resistance to change and competition.

What’s to lead? There is a crisis in confidence in our public school system and the politicians and the unions refuse to do a damn thing about it.

You can’t honestly argue that public school education is serving the American taxpayer very well, let alone their children.

this math is part of the ghetto-ization of our schools , the taxpaying public will continue to pull their childern from the public school system so the schools will have to import students from other locations to fill the classes and justify the budget ,like englewood ,thats also why they wat to build all this section 8 crap !

12:52 I hate to break it to you but constructivist math was indeed invented for kids stuck in failing Ghetto/urban schools, which are usually staffed by the least able teachers. It was to be so easy even a Geico Caveman could do it. Not only would they be able to “do it,” but they would do so without the help of the union teachers in the room. Hence key words like “discovery.” These teachers could not teach math so the students had to discover it by themselves with the help of a math program so dumb that even…

“Educational leadership” is just the new term for an administrative degree. If you check credentials you will find that many teachers and administrators have a master’s degree in their subject field as well.